Re: How to make a server?

How do I make my own server and what are the h/w or s/w requirements for that?

There really are no hard ware requirements for making a webserver.

Simply download & install your choice of webserver software, forward ports 80 & 443 from your router, configure the software, & you are done. By default the software will have it's own "hello world" to prove it's running. Also the software will have it's own documentation.

If you are wanting to use Linux or Unix, then you want to use Apache or nginx.

Your biggest hurdle is going to be your ISP. You will need to verify that they allow traffic on port 80. 2ndly your likely going to have residential service, so your ip address will change. You'll want to use a service such as no-ip to auto update your dns records.

Re: How to make a server?

Posted 28 November 2011 - 02:31 PM

When friends ask me how they can get started running there own web hosting I usually point to
"The Perfect Server" Tutorials. These teach you how to set up everything from the operating
system to apache, mysql, php, and more.